Are Recurring Payments PCI Compliant?

For many customers and / or online store owners this is a great question. Main concern for customers is if they subscribe to something, that means that someone holds their credit card information (potential risk), and this is important question …

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Create a Custom Magento Theme, Part Two

Blogs are a powerful marketing tool for ecommerce merchants, and closely integrating the popular WordPress blogging platform with Magento is essential for the Athlete By Nature site.

In this tutorial series, I am demonstrating how to build a custom Ma…

MagentoGo : l’offre SaaS de Magento !

MagentoGo

Varien vient de lancer son offre hébergée de Magento : il s’agit de Magento Go, solution en mode SaaS (Software as a service) à destination des petites et moyennes entreprises.
Facilité de mise en œuvre
Avec cette nouvelle alternative, il devient très simple de déployer une application Magento en ligne, puisque qu’aucune connaissance technique n’est nécessaire.
La création [...]

Magento go

Magento go, ou magento, go à l’attaque des petites solutions e-commerce. Le rouleau compresseur est lancé, magento s’attaque à toutes les solutions e-commerce. Magento go est similaire (en mieux ?) aux solutions SaaS comme oxatis ou powe…

MagentoGO screenshot tour

MagentoGO has been released few days ago. To be more precise on 28th of February 2011. For those interested here are few screenshots from its Admin panel. All in all, I’m pretty impressed with what they have done with it. …

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Magento and rel=canonical

A new comment on my old post that explains how rel=canonical element (tag) works gave me inspiration to write another article about rel=canonical. This time, I’ll try to explain why and where rel=canonical is usually necessary in a Magento store. …

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Magento 1.5 statut de commande

Une des nouveautés de magento 1.5 est l’ajout de nouveaux statuts de commandes personnalisés. Avant la version 1.5 certain statut était disponible par défaut ( en cours de traitement, bloqué , en attente..). On pouvait en rajouter via des mo…

Lesson 7: Magento Installation

Ok, enough about the Magento Ecosystem, let’s start the new year by start digging into Magento itself! Again, the course is not meant to make you a Magento programmer, but you will find it useful when you’re able to play with Magento yourself to try things out. In order to do so you will need [...]

Order statuses “improvement” in 1.5

I took some time to install and do the quick check on Magento 1.5.0.0-alpha1. There was one thing that is impossible to miss: Improved order statuses. I remember the days when people requested that feature all over ther forum. Oh yes… what feature? Custom order statuses So, we have it out of the box finally! [...]

Making a sitemap.xml for Magento

A few people have asked with regards to my Magento Speed Test, how to create a sitemap.xml for their Magento store so that they can test their speed/performance. So here we go: 1) Go to Catalog->Google Sitemap in the admin 2) Click ‘Add Sitemap&#…

Magento, the number one e-commerce platform (presentation)

Today I gave an ‘Introduction to Magento’ to customers of a hosting company in The Netherlands (Oxilion). I made the presentation with the prezi.com tool and I’d like to share it here with you. .prezi-player { width: 650px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } PS: You don’t have to follow the fixed path of the [...]

Magento Store Mobile Previewer Launch

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With the launch of Magento Store Mobile, now you can preview your Magento Mobile Application in advance of even purchasing a subscription. Magento Mobile now provides a free iPhone previewer application, available in the Apple iTunes Store.

The Magent…

PEAR_Registry: invalid filemap data

Lors de la migration 1.4.0.1 vers la 1.4.1.1, vous pouvez obtenir dans certain cas l’erreur suivante :
PEAR_Registry: invalid filemap data

Dans ce cas, il faut supprimer les fichiers suivants :
/downloader/pearlib/pear.ini
/downloader/pearlib/php/.filemap

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Magento Product Audit Extension – Monitor and Record Changes to your Products

I wrote up an article over on MageBase this weekend expanding on a tip I got from the Magento Developers Paradise. In the process of writing it, I went through a worked example and as usual with articles you want to make sure the code actually runs too…

How to set multiple stores/websites with one magento installation on different domains

This article will describe quickest way how to use and configure one Magento installation on different domains. Point here is what do you want to have on that different domains, for example you want to have chosen categories/products on one domain and the other one will be on different language. First you figure that and [...]

Magento and Google Services Integration – All-In-One Guide

There are tutorials all around the web as well as at the Inchoo website that guide you through various Google services integration with Magento eCommerce platform. I wanted to unite all of these resources on one place and also bring something new to the table. In this guide, we’ll talk about: 1. Google Analytics integration [...]

6 Tips for Making Magento Production Ready

During the development of your Magento eCommerce store, performance usually takes a back seat to functionality and design. However, after you’ve installed all of your extensions and have checked the spelling on your last cms page, you’ll wa…

Améliorer la recherche magento

Une des faiblesses de magento « la recherche simple« . Après avoir mis en place huiles et nature, J’ai fait une recherche pour voir quelle photo j’avais mise sur un produit. Et là, stupeur, mon produit arrive en 30ème positio…

Manage Customer Attributes

Screenshot of the customer attribute edit interface

From the start Magento has included the ability to modify product attributes through an interface in the administration panel. With Enterprise Edition 1.9, you can now manage customer attributes through a similar interface. This article will show you…

Etude de cas : Un webservice de regroupement produit simple/produit configurable dans Magento

Tshirts - Configurable in Magento

Magento propose, dès la version communautaire, une API Webservice SOAP et XML-RPC permettant d’échanger simplement des informations avec la base de données. Il est donc possible, via une série de méthodes prédéfinies (http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/magento_core_api), de récupérer des informations, d’en mettre à jour, d’en envoyer ou d’en supprimer de la base de données, sans avoir à intervenir [...]